June 19 Photo Brief: A tea party at the Capitol, baby kissing at the Vatician and war exercises in Jordan

Tea Party members hold a rally at the U.S. Capitol against the IRS, Pope Francis kisses a baby during his weekly audience in Vatican Square, large scale military exercises take place in Jordan involving 19 countries and more in today’s daily brief.

Aerial picture taken on June 19, 2013 in Villelongue shows the flooded Lanne river one day after unseasonal storms caused havoc across huge swaths of the country. (Laurent Dard/Getty Images)

A child’s toy Ferrari is parked between two hatchbacks at the Hale Barns Cricket Club in Altrincham, Cheshire, northern England. (Phil Noble/Reuters photo)

Protesters burn tires in front of the Luxor governorate building to protest against the newly-appointed governor, Adel Mohamed al-Khayat, who was a member of the militant group, al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, in Luxor. (stringer/Reuters photo)

A man poses for pictures during the Spring/Summer 2014 London Collections: Men fashion event in London. (Andrew Cowie/Getty Images)

A priest baptises a child at Novopyatigorsk lake near the Russian southern town of Pyatigorsk. About 80 people were baptized by a Russian orthodox church during the ceremony. (Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters photo)

FBI Director Robert Mueller listens to question at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing about the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Larry Downing/Reuters photo)

A jogger passes the hazy skyline of Singapore. Singapore’s worst air pollution in 16 years sparked diplomatic tension on Tuesday, as the city-state urged Indonesia to provide data on company names and concession maps to enable it to act against plantation firms that allow slash-and-burn farming. (Edgar Su/Reuters photo)

Pope Francis kisses a baby as he arrives to lead the weekly audience in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (Stefano Rellandini/Reuters photo)

Jim Griffin (L), dressed as Capt. America, holds a large American flag while participating in a Tea Party rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. The group Tea Party Patriots hosted the rally to protest against the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting Tea Party and grassroots organizations for harassment. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

A seagull flies as military helicopters, taking part in Eager Lion military exercise, approach a vessel for a boarding drill in the coastal city of Aqaba. Eager Lion military exercise, set to take place in Jordan between June 9-20 is an annual multi-national exercise designed to focus on facing irregular warfare, as well as terrorism and national security threats. (Muhammad Hamed/Reuters photo)

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama and her daughters Malia (C) and Sasha (R) visit the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. U.S. President Barack Obama will unveil plans for a sharp reduction in nuclear warheads in a landmark speech at the Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday that comes 50 years after John F. Kennedy declared “Ich bin ein Berliner” in a defiant Cold War address. (Jens Meyer/Reuters photo)

Protesters chant slogans in front of Luxor governorate building to protest against the newly-appointed governor, Adel Mohamed al-Khayat, who was a member of the militant group, al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, in Luxor. (stringer/Reuters photo)

A helicopter participates in the “Eager Lion” military exercises at Al Quwierah near Aqaba city, 290 km (180 miles) south of Amman. Some 8,000 personnel from 19 different nations will be participating in the exercise in Jordan from June 9 to June 20, according to officials. (Muhammad Hamed/Reuters photo)

A general view of the Pariser Platz and Brandenburg Gate during the speech of U.S. President Barack Obama in Berlin. (Guido Bergmann/Reuters photo)

Members of an honor guard stand in line as they prepare for a welcoming ceremony for visiting Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Kim Kyung-Hoon /Reuters photo)

An Afghan policeman keeps watch after an operation in Sorkhrod district of Jalalabad province. Police officers captured two suspected Taliban insurgents and killed four others during the overnight ambush, according to deputy provincial police chief Masoon Khan Hashimi. (Parwiz/Reuters photo)

An Afghan youth dives into the Herat River in Herat. Over a third of Afghans are living in abject poverty, as those in power are more concerned about addressing their vested interests rather than the basic needs of the population, a UN report said. (Aref Karimi/Getty Images)

Shopkeepers make use of a boat as they wade through the rising waters of the Yamuna River at the Tibetan market in New Delhi. Military helicopters dropped emergency supplies June 19 to thousands of tourists and pilgrims stranded by flash floods that tore through towns and temples in northern India, killing at least 138 people, officials said. (Prakash Singh/Getty images)

Construction laborers working at The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands are pictured against the hazy skyline of Singapore. Singapore’s air pollution level rose to “very unhealthy” levels late on Wednesday, with the main pollution index hitting the highest on record, as smoke from Indonesian forest fires enveloped the city-state. (Edgar Su/Reuters photo)

Members of the public enjoy the hot weather outside Westminster Abbey in London, England. Whilst the country is currently experiencing high temperatures, there has been a prediction by senior meteorologists that Britain may be expecting up to 10 years of rainy summers due to warming of the North Atlantic waters. (Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images)

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